GNOME Shell Screen Lock - Timeout

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Sun Jan 12 18:54:12 UTC 2014


On 01/12/2014 12:20 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Fedora 20 here with GNOME Shell, fully updated.  If I go to
> gnome-control-center/privacy and change the time after which the screen
> locks it does nothing.  No matter what I enter there it still ocks after
> 5 minutes of inactivity.
> 
> I can query the actual value with:
> 
> # gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
> uint32 300
> 
> I can set it with:
> 
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 600 (for 10 mins).
> 
> ...and it works.  I'm just wondering what's wrong with the Privacy applet.
> 
> Is it only me or is it a known issue?  A search on bugzilla didn't
> return anything.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jorge
> 
It's controlled by the power settings, too. What's the value for "blank
screen"?



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-- Steve


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